Climate Trust Lead - North America

About PatchPatch is building the infrastructure to power a climate-positive economy and scale carbon removal. Businesses can leverage our API to automatically calculate the footprint of any given transaction and make that transaction carbon-neutral. Offset projects use our consumer-grade platform to manage their business, find new customers and scale their technology.
We're a small team of successful startup veterans building a category-defining business in an industry the world deeply needs. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Version One, Pale Blue Dot, and are founded by the same team who helped take Sonder from 0 to 2B.

‍Patch's API-as-a-marketplace services two groups:‍Demand‍We put climate initiatives on autopilot by programmatically offsetting CO₂ emissions. Our API makes it easy for businesses to launch features like carbon-neutral delivery, rides, payments, and more.
‍Supply‍We’ve partnered with the best carbon removal scientists and developers in the world to build a network of high-quality projects. We’re aggregating demand to these projects so they can scale the amount of CO₂ they’re able to remove to help us reach our climate goals.

About PositionPatch is looking for an experienced Climate, Strategy, and Business Development professional to fortify the supply side of Patch’s marketplace. This role will partner with entrepreneurs and technologists on the cutting edge of carbon removal and carbon markets. You’ll build strong relationships with new and existing supply and ecosystem partners to build new ways to enhance trust and transparency in carbon markets.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as the main Climate point of contact for Patch’s Supply Partnerships team for technical climate questions and supplier onboarding assessments, representing the network of supply/project developer partners to the greater Patch team while delivering relevant and valuable market insights.
• Develop and own commercial relationships with ecosystem partners who are elevating trust and transparency in carbon credits
• Collaborate across Patch’s Engineering, Product, Design, and Partnerships teams to achieve commercial objectives.
• Strategize and operationalize new business processes across the Sustainability & Climate Strategy team, making the business 1% more effective every day while coaching and mentoring others.
• Facilitate a positive, partner-obsessed experience throughout all team and customer collaborations.

Who You Are:

• You have previous years of experience in sustainability or climate-related fields like carbon removal, voluntary carbon markets or adjacent industries working directly with customers, clients, and partners. Preferably you have experience in the technical side of carbon solutions.
• You have a great grasp of the various carbon removal technologies, participants, and market trends.
• You have the ability to think strategically about adding value to a number of existing and prospective partners and team members through market insights developed internally and externally.
• You enjoy problem-solving, project management, and are a structured thinker. You have the ability to create simple, yet effective frameworks that guide others through your process. 
• You have a strong track record of independently delivering work as well as influencing the work of others. 
• You have experience communicating value to a number of existing and prospective partners and team members through market insights developed internally and externally.
• You can thrive in a fast-paced environment with adverse challenges to tackle.
• You are eager to contribute to Patch’s carbon removal mission.
• Bonus points if you have strategy & Ops experience in a scaling, category-defining startup environment.

Why Patch:

• Work with passionate activists and experts to rebalance the planet
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Monthly wellness stipend for mental and physical health
• Remote-first, asynchronous work culture
• Time-off as-needed vacation policy
• Generous parental leave policy
• The base salary for this role if filled within the United States is $50,000-$200,000 and varies based on factors like level of experience and market rates. Full-time employees will also be eligible for equity and insurance.

Commitment to Diversity:Patch is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant, candidate, or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
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